Chelsea Pace (she/her)

Intimacy Choreography, Intimacy Coordination, Instructional Ethics, Consent Culture, Queer Intimacy, BDSM/Kink, Storytelling Complex Consent, Power Dynamics, Trauma-Informed Practices, Company and Departmental Culture

SF Bay Area/ NYC

www.chelseapace.com

Chelsea Pace (she/her) is a leading intimacy choreographer, coordinator, and educator. As Co-Founder of Theatrical Intimacy Education, she has shared her work with thousands of theatre and film artists around the world from major studio sets and international workshops to indies and Broadway.

Chelsea has been developing ethical, efficient, and effective systems for staging intimacy for more than a decade. In 2021, Chelsea was honored with The Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for her work "revolutionizing rehearsal rooms and classroom spaces by implementing systems that center the most vulnerable" and for "bringing never-ending clarity and practicality to the art and process of intimacy direction." Her book, Staging Sex: Best Practices, Tools, and Techniques for Theatrical Intimacy was released in March 2020 from Routledge Publishing and has been adopted by dozens of university theatre, dance, and film programs and professional training programs internationally.

Chelsea specializes in staging queer intimacy, complex stories of consent and/or non-consent, kink, and supporting productions with inclusive, thoughtful, professional, and culturally competent choreography.

Chelsea is currently the Resident Intimacy Consultant and Choreographer at both Signature Theatre and Woolly Mammoth Theatre and works in SF, DC, NYC, and on theatre and film projects across the country. She is the former President of The Association for Theatre Movement Educators.